What kind of waste is hospital medical waste?

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  1. What kind of waste is hospital medical waste?
      a.
    Industrial waste
      b.
    Toxic waste
      c.
    Solid waste
      d.
    Biogenic waste
      e.
    E-waste
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Ans. Unwanted or unusable products are waste (or waste). Waste is any object that is discarded or worthless, faulty, and useless after primary use. A by-product is a comparatively low economic product, by comparison. By innovation that raises the value of a waste product higher than zero, the waste product becomes a by-product, joint product, or resource. Examples include industrial solid waste, hazardous waste, wastewater (e.g. wastewater containing bodily waste (feces and urine), toxic waste, and more.

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Solid waste includes any waste, garbage, sludge produced by social, industry, agriculture, and mining operations or by an air pollution control plant, or other abandoned materials, including liquid, solid, semisolid, or contained gasses. However, it does not involve dissolved content from domestic sewage, dissolved materials, or solid or dissolved materials inflows for the return of irrigation, or industrial releases which are points of origin.

Medical waste can be categorized into four categories: contagious, harmful, radioactive, and general: medical waste monitoring legislation of 1988 defines medical residue as any solid wastes produced in diagnoses, treatments, or immunizations of persons or animals, or in thereto research or bioproduction or tests.

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